"So far the happier lot, enjoying thee "Pre-eminent by fo much odds, while thou The remaining part of Eve's fpeech, in which the gives an account of herfelf upon her first creation, and the manner in which he was brought to Adam, is, I think, as beautiful a paffage as any in Milton, or perhaps in any other poet whatsoever. Thefe paffages are all worked off with fo much art, that they are capable of pleafing the moft delicate reader, without offending the most fevere: "That day I oft remember, when from fleep, &c." A poet of lefs judgment and invention than this great: author, would have found it very difficult to have filled thefe tender parts of the poem with fentiments proper for a ftate of innocence; to have defcribed the warmth of fove, and the profeffions of it, without artifice or hyperbole; to have made the man fpeak the most endearing things, without defcending from his natural dignity, and the woman receiving them without departing from the modefty of her character; in a word, to adjust the prerogatives of wisdom and beauty, and make each appear to the other in its proper force and lovelinefs. This mutual fubordination of the two fexes is wonderfully kept up in the whole poem, as particularly in the fpeech of Eve I have before mentioned, and upon the conclufion. of it in the following lines. "So fpake our general mother, and with eyes "Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And meek furrender, half embracing lean'd' "On our first father: half her fwelling breaft Naked met his under the flowing gold "Of her loose treffes hid; he in delight "Both of her beauty and fubmiffive charms *Smil'd with fuperior love." The poet adds, that the devil turned away with envy. at the fight of fo much happiness. We have another view of our firft parents in their evening difcourfes, which is full of pleafing images and fentiments fuitable to their condition and characters. The Speech fpeech of Eve, in particular, is dreffed up in fuch a foft and natural turn of words and fentiments, as cannot be fufficiently admired. I fhall close my reflexions upon this book, with obferving the masterly tranfition which the poet makes to their evening worship in the following lines. "Thus at their fhady lodge arriv'd, both ftood, "Both turn'd, and under open sky, ador'd "The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heav'n, "Which they beheld, the moon's refplendent globe, "And ftarry pole: thou alfo mad ft the night, "Maker omnipotent, and thou the day, &c.” Moft of the modern heroic poets have imitated the ancients in beginning a fpeech without premifing, that the perfon faid thus or thus; but as it is eafy to imitate the ancients in the omiflion of two or three words, it requires judgment to do it in fuch a manner as they shall not be miffed, and that the fpeech may begin naturally without them. There is a fine inftance of this kind out of Homer, in the twenty-third chapter of Longinus, L THE Admiration, fhort-liv'd, N. 256. Age. A comfortable old age, the reward of a well-fpent youth, N. 260. Agreeable man, who, N. 280. Ambition, never fatisfy'd, N. 256. The end of it,. The effects of. it in the mind, N. 256. N. 255. Subjects us to many troubles, N. 257. object of a laudable ambition, ibid. The true: Appetites the incumbrances of old age, N. 260. Aristotle, his definition of an intire action of epic poetry, N. 267. His fenfe of the greatnefs of the action. in a poem; his method of examining an epic poem, N. 273. An obfervation of that critic's, ibid. One of the best logicians in the world, N. 291. His divifion of a poem, N. 297. Another of his obfervations, ibid. His obfervation on the fable of an epic poem, N. 315 Art of criticism, the Spectator's account of that poem,. N. 253. Audiences, at prefent void of common fenfe, N. 290. Auguftus, his requeft to his friends at his death, N. 317. B. BEAU's head, the diffection of one, N. 275. Beauty in a virtuous woman makes her more virtu ous, N. 302. Bills of mortality, the ufe of them, N. 289. Boccalini, his animadverfions upon critics, N. 201. Cæfar, C. Æfar (Julius) a frequent faying of his, N. 256. Calamities, the merit of fuffering patiently under them, N. 312. Camillus, his deportment to his fon, N. 263. Cenfor of marriages, N. 308. Charity-fchools, great inftances of a public fpirit, N. 294 Clavius, proving incapable of any other ftudies, became a celebrated mathematician, N. 307. Comparisons in Homer and Milton, defended by Monfieur Coverley (Sir Roger de) his return to town, and conver- Criminal love, fome account of the ftate of it, N. 274. Critic, the qualities requifite to a good one, N. 291. DE : D. Eath deaths of eminent perfons, the most improving paffages in hiftory, N. 289. Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 292. Decency of behaviour, generally tranfgreffed, N. 292. Diftreft Mother, a new tragedy, recommended by the E. Ating, drinking, and fleeping, with the generality of people, the three important articles of life, N. 317. Education; whether the education at a public school, or under a private tutor, be to be preferred, N. 313. The advantage of a public education, ibid. Elizabeth, Elizabeth, (Queen) her medal on the defeat of the Spanish Armada, N. 293. Emilia, an excellent woman, her character, N. 302. Envy; the abhorrence of envy, a certain note of a great mind, N. 253. Eyes; the prevailing influence of the eye inftanced in feveral particulars, N. 252. F F. Able of a drop of water, N. 293. Fame, the difficulty of obtaining and preferving it, N. 255. The inconveniencies attending the defire of it, ibid. Fop, what fort of perfons deferve that character, N. 280. Fortune often unjustly complained of, N. 282. To be controlled by nothing but infinite wifdom, N. 293. Fortune-stealers, who they are that fet up for fuch, N. 311. Diftinguifhed from fortune-hunters, ibid. Fribblers, who, N. 288. G. Ifts of fortune, more valued than they ought to be, N. 294. Government, what form of it the most reasonable, N. 287. Gracefulness of action, the excellency of it, N. 292. Greeks and Romans, the different methods obferved by them in the education of their children, N. 313. H. Omer's excellence in the multitude and variety of his characters, N. 273. He degnerates fometimes into burlefque, N. 279. Honeycomb (Will) his great infight into gallantry, N. 265. His application to rich widows, N. 311. Hoods, coloured, a new invention, N. 265. I. JANE (Mrs.) a great pickthank, N. 272. Jefuits their great fagacity in difcovering the talent of a young ftudent, N. 307. Indolence an enemy to virtue, N. 306. Journal, |